Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-24

\ population, white and coFored, is but
half that to the square mile of the north
The north having in 1880, &C. ,s7e in
habitants, while the south had I3,79S,-
o52.
The assessed valuation of the real es-
tateoOf the north was also S11 ,063, 602,-
149, or over six times greater than that
of the southern states, which was but
} sI,s67, 466,O9S.
The value of the land to each inhaOi-
tant at the north was S425, while with
double the amount to each inhabitant
in the south the value was but SI3S.
Each owner Of 100 acres at the north
could sell at auction and buy 500 at the
south, while at the same time each five
acres st the south is intrinsically worth
six acres of the north for all practical
purposes.
The personal property of the northern
states wss 81 ,222, 1885, 43 or S159 to each
inhabitant, while st the south it was but
1876, 563 sos or only $40 to each person,
although the population was but half to
the square mile of that of the north, and
each inhabitsnt had double the number of
acres.
At the north the land was assessed at a
valuation of $22,3le per square mile, and
at the south S396l per square mile or less
than one-fifth that of the north, and yet
with the same cultivation and develop
ment of industries the south would be
worth one-fifth more or six times its pres
ent value.
The total assessed valuation of the six
teen northern states with 495, 669 square
miles was S15,2S6, AL, 092, or $50, $50 per
square mile, while at the south the total
I q 20
miles was S3,76S, 593,549. but S7909 per
square mile, or one-fourth that of the
northern states.
This shows the opportunity awaltiE g
! for the investment of capital and the re-
suits of the development awaiting that
country when the same industrial sCtiv-
! ity shall have been reached. A land
worth but S3,7GS, 593, $40, will then be
worth SIC, ,I25,000 or an increase of
nearly 500 per cent As illustrations
further of the opportunity for increase of
wealth from the industrial development
of the south, the assessed valuation per
acre of MsssschL sets is 1897 while that
of Georgia is but 50, and yet Georgia has
every natural advantage f Massachus It's
Why this difference? Simply the want
of an energetic, systematic attention to
the development of the natural resources
of the country. In part the railway has
/ made the difference as there were in the
| southern states in 1880, 10 $50 miles, and
in the northern states At $50 miles. In
| 1886 the mileage in the north was 81, 5+4
against 81 ,467 in the southern states,
| showing an opportunity for IN increase in
population of double the present to COR
respond with the north, and the invest
ment Of capital and the development of
agriculture, mines, water power and
| manufactures of five times what at
present exists, aud still have no sharper
competition than now exists at the north.
WHAT ARE THE PROSPECTS?
The question may we'll be asked what
are the prospects and what is doing to
occupy and develop this new land?
These southern states have every advan-
tage which is possessed in the north,
every product of mine and raw material,
iron ore and coal and raw cotton nearer
TO hand, of hemp and jute and ramie, not
now produced, every advantage of sugar
production in cane and sorghum much
greater than the north. OF wool and mo-
hair and silk fully equal, while the de-
mand for new railways is equal to the
north, and the cost of building and work
ing less and the receipts greater.
Attention is turning to part Of these
industrial opportunities, but by no
means to eli of them or to the extent de-
manded.
l. In sugar growing the whole south
may probably adopt the sorghum cane
as a source of sugar and grow it and
produce sugar in competition with all
the world. Fifty million dollars in ma
chinery may safely be put i'll at once
with the purchase of 100000 acres Of
land.
,. In jute culture there is a new in
dustTy of at least half that extent which
should be at once established.
3. In ramie is another, while IN hemp,
fax, mohair, raw silk product and manu-
facture, are other industries of untold
wealth. All of these may be agsin
doubled in ten years.
The south is the natural home of all
these industries and they are in every
way as practicable, and may be as profit
able as cotton growing and cotton manu-
featuring.
The increase of 81, OOo, 100000 year in
the rise in valuation and the new indus
trial development of the south for the
next ten years is by no means an improb-
able outlook, at the same time there
should be million year increase in
population. -
In new railway building, in ironsnnd
steel production, in cot on Manila tuTe
and in few cities the increase az. Lesser
Industries is being attended to,Sbuf ID |
the agricultural products, in recovering |
and developing the fertility of the land. |
in restoring its condition and extending
the production of provisions, aud in the
establishment of thousands Of she, lesser,
industries which diversity empIoy
and increase the ability of mans hand
and extending his wants, there isl but lit
tie doing. The great field is still unoccu- |
ped.
The field is still waiting and will be
until new element, new spirit goes |
to its occupation. That new spirit must |
be one to set an example to what exists |
there now. 1t must show deeper, more |
thorough cultivation of the soil, the use |
OF modern implements, teach the lesson |
Of diversity of crops, inspire pride |
in education, in intelligence, IN home !
surroundings OF taste, and develop on |
increased civilization by setting an /
example to be followed and patterned |
after
In no part Of the world can land be |
bought so low, in no part OF the world is
there greater promise of prosperity, and |
and nowhere can colonies OF ten families,
or Of fifty or of 8 hundred fud such !
promise as anywhere in these old stat. :,
and the sooner the land is eaken the
greater the promise aud the profit. In
all the business OF he blacksmith, &
carriage maker, or in growing fruits,
sheep, stock, poultry, garden
sass, grain, in fact there is climate early
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